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The ghosts of Gaza swallowed in the black hole of genocide

We are at the final act. Every message from Gaza tells us this. They are preparing to run. They call it evacuation, but it will be a massacre. Everyone writes me the same thing: we are tired, exhauste...

May 12, 2026 Our blog

Widad Tamimi

Denied reunion. Zuri died in Cairo, alone

Zuri, nine years old, died alone in a hospital room in Cairo. Her mother was unable to assist her, let alone say goodbye: she was denied an urgent visa to Egypt. For months, we had been asking the Slo...

May 12, 2026 Our blog

Widad Tamimi

Justice is a necessary condition for peace

Two years later, October 7 is no longer just a date etched in the calendar of pain: it is a fault line in the world's consciousness. That day shook the foundations of international law, politics, and ...

May 12, 2026 Our blog

Widad Tamimi

A inhumane crossroads for Italy

Dear Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani, this is not just a letter. It is a cry. Because what has been happening in recent weeks to young Palestinian parents admitted to Italy with scholarship...

May 12, 2026 Our blog

Widad Tamimi

Tajani, why does Italy close its doors to Palestinian art?

Dear Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani, we are at the second act: open letter , part two. After weeks, there are knots that we cannot untie and that deeply touch the civil and cultural consci...

May 12, 2026 Our blog

Widad Tamimi

Italian bureaucracy condemns the voices of Gaza to death

Hamed is twenty-four years old, but he carries a life on his shoulders that weighs like a hundred. For two years, Hamed has been the eyes of the world. With his camera, he has traversed refugee camps,...

May 12, 2026 Our blog

Widad Tamimi

Out of Gaza, deportations disguised as evacuations

While in Italy we are struggling to save a handful, to bring the gazawi out of a hell that offers no alternatives – because no one believes there is a future anymore, even if we started rebuilding tom...

May 12, 2026 Our blog

Widad Tamimi

A circular opens to artists from Gaza: now bring them to Italy

After months of intense, stubborn, often invisible work to ensure that young artists and musicians from Gaza have the opportunity to continue studying, creating, and giving voice to a people under sie...

May 12, 2026 Our blog

Widad Tamimi

From Gaza to Carloforte, the good omen of a "new" supportive community

I will tell you a happy-ending story. One of those rare ones. The kind we read little about, or never, in the newspapers. I tell it to close this difficult year. 2025. And to continue hoping for bette...

May 12, 2026 Our blog

Widad Tamimi

From the crack of Rafah passes the unwritten code of exile

The one that cracked open yesterday in Rafah, after almost two years of hermetic seals and tomb-like silence, is not a door to freedom. It is a narrow and guarded crack that looks out over an abyss. I...

May 12, 2026 Our blog

Widad Tamimi

Bombs, drones, and a weapon aimed at the most vulnerable: hunger

From Gaza, Um Fadi writes to me at night. Throughout the winter, even during the most difficult moments, her tone has been calm, never desperate. They were out of diapers, and without clean water, she...

May 12, 2026 Our blog

Widad Tamimi

For Abd, Italy is a lie

Abd possesses the transparent fragility of artists. In a family of determined sisters, scientific minds that challenge the abyss with the strength of logic, he is the one who translates horror into no...

May 12, 2026 Our blog

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Welcome to the editorial space of APS ioien - in memory of Claudia Weiss Tamimi. Here we collect stories, testimonies, and insights about our activities in hospitality, human rights advocacy, and international cooperation, to give a voice to those who refuse to be stopped by borders.

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